Massive open online courses (large-scale open online courses) and large-scale open online courses are the products of "Internet+education". English literal translation "massive open online course" is a new online course development model. The theoretical basis of large-scale open online courses is connectionism and open online learning teaching method.

Specific introduction:

The so-called "Massive open network course", as the name implies, "M" stands for massive, which is different from the traditional courses with only dozens or hundreds of students. A large open online course has tens of thousands of students, up to 65438+600 thousand.

The second letter "O" stands for openness and interest-oriented. Anyone who wants to study can come in and study, regardless of nationality, and only need one email address to register and participate. The third letter "O" stands for Online, where learning is completed without travel and time and space restrictions; The fourth letter "c" stands for of course, which means of course.

The course covers not only a wide range of scientific and technological disciplines, such as mathematics, statistics, computer science, natural science and engineering, but also social science and humanities. Massive open online courses do not provide credits and are not included in undergraduate or graduate degrees. Most courses are free.